Jim....you meet the most interesting people....l have missed the stories/tales from you and Sam/Tom/etc...thanks.....jan brodie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Giddens" <jimg@cox-internet.com> To: <TXREDRIV-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 4:25 PM Subject: [TXREDRIV] Mayor for 49 years, not genealogy > This is not Red River County, but a man almost 20 yrs older that me was eating at the Subway in Pittsburg a couple of weeks ago and ask me to set at his table. He told me his name was Abernathy and he was the mayor of Pittsburg (Tx). I then recalled seeing his picture in the Pittsburg Gazette as I have been working there 2 days a week for the last several months. > He told me a little of Pittsburg history, like the first man to ever parachute out of an > airplane was at Pittsburg in 1909. (long story). > This week I read in The Gazette (the people at work always buy a Gazette to read the police report) that Mayor D.H. Abernathy has filed to run for another term as Pittsburg mayor. > "This is his 49th year to serve in that capacity". > This will put him over 50 years as major. > I figure this has to be some kind of record. > > Jim Giddens > Paris, Tx > > > > > > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >